What tax evasion looked like in Roman times. A nearly 2,000-year-old papyrus shows the cruel punishments meted out to the guilty

It may not have been the tax evasion trial of the second century, but the charges were serious enough to attract punishments ranging from stinging fines and permanent exile to hard labor...

The Finance Police of the Provincial Command of Monza Brianza, by order of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Milan, have executed a preventive seizure order aimed at confiscating an equivalent amount of 1,506,000 euros, issued by the G.I.P.